To all SSEP M6 Flight Teams – Received from NanRacks at 2:38 pm EST: Latest updates are in- primary launch date has officially been moved to 1/10 at 4:45 a.m.- SpaceX needed the extra day for review and testing after the first attempt. Back up launch date is now January 13th.
Archive | 2015
NASA Press Release on Yankee Clipper Re-flight, w NASA Administrator Charlie Bolden
NASA issued the Press Release below on January 5, 2014. The National Center for Earth and Space Science Education, the Arthur C. Clarke Institute for Space Education and NanoRacks are honored that NASA felt it appropriate to issue a release dedicated to the student researchers across the U.S. and Canada for Student Spaceflight Experiments Program […]
We have a SCRUB for SpaceX-5 Launch, Recycling to Friday January 9, 5:09 am
At T-minus 1 min 28 sec flight controllers aborted launch of SpaceX CRS-5 due to an anomaly in the second stage. First stage performance was nominal. All indications are that SpaceX and NASA will recycle to the next launch date, which is Friday, January 9. Launch would be at 5:09 am EST, with live coverage […]
Live Coverage: Re-flight of Yankee Clipper II – the SSEP Mission 6 to ISS Payload of 17 Experiments Launching on SpaceX-5, 6:20 am ET, January 6, 2015
We are a ‘go’ for liftoff of SpaceX-5 on Tuesday, January 6, 2015. As part of the cargo being transported to the International Space Station will be the SSEP Mission 6 to ISS Yankee Clipper II payload of experiments originally lost on Orb-3 on October 28, 2014. Launch of SpaceX-5 is scheduled for 6:20 am EST, from Cape Canaveral Air Force […]